...I'm usually not quite this cooperative, but there's no point in not being cooperative, given everything else. I know there's someone back home who would die for this kind of opportunity...

[god. he hopes there's a way to cure these, otherwise hanneman will be fucking intolerable.

...

also manuela would go apeshit for the chance to see him with his shirt off. that's also a thing.

but anyway, hm...]

I don't feel any sensation in the spike itself, but I can tell you're doing it from where it's coming out of my skin, if that makes any sense.